A very happy publication day to Caroline Crampton, as A BODY MADE OF GLASS hits the shelves 🎉

‘An intelligent, vulnerable and learned book about a condition so widespread and yet so misunderstood... The best book I've read in ages’ Cal Flyn

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A pleasure to chat to Paul Carlucci about historical fiction, atmosphere, ghost stories, and morally complex characters

Thank you to Cal Flyn and @Five_books for posting this interview. It was great to talk over some of the books that went into #WellBeings . Girton College, Faculty of English, CRASSH, Cambridge. Shout-out to @william_bloom and Brigid Delaney.

A new offering from Arvon - the Advanced Writing Programme. Join myself, Caroline Bird & Jacob Ross for an extended creative writing course. 5 places for fiction, 5 places for poetry, 5 places for nonfiction. Full details (& info on grant funded places) in thread 👇

I had some very lovely news

Overjoyed to learn that the great Cal Flyn will be one of two recipients of the EM Forster Award 2024 from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Congratulations!

New Substack post! This one is my (unsolicited) advice on making life as a freelance journalist work in an increasingly unstable industry. I hope it's helpful. samirashackle.substack.com/p/what-ive-lea…

So much to enjoy and admire in this profile of Percival Everett, brilliant writer and very reluctant subject

newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

A few weeks ago I boarded a yellow submarine and dived to the bottom of the sea. I've written about super subs, deep sea diving, the horrors of the Hadal zone, and the strange, strange world of the private submersible industry for Observer Magazine

theguardian.com/science/2024/m…

Vvg article by Samira Shackle on why the simplest solution to homelessness may be to give people in crisis a big money transfer.

People wrongly assume that the homeless are unable to spend wisely

prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/housin…

Finished copies arrived today of Caroline Crampton’s fascinating history of hypochondria, A BODY MADE OF GLASS

‘Humane, thoughtful and unsettling… the best book I’ve read in ages’ Cal Flyn

Publishing 11.04 - pre-order today
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It was a pleasure to discuss the National Book Critics Circle NBCC Autobiography Award shortlist books with Cal Flyn for Five Books ! 2023 was a great year for memoir!

poetry gets people to ask the right questions

If you are a published author, or a first time author under contract, you should apply to be a Gladstone's Library writer in residence. I did this in 2019 and got SO much done in my time there. It's a residential library, so you can write til late and eat on site.

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I'd say that saying nothing about a genocide *is* a political statement

A summary of what we spoke about on BBC Radio 4's Rare Earth yesterday - where Helen Czerski and Tom Heap asked: 'should we just leave nature alone?'

bbc.co.uk/programmes/art…

Launching today, a brand new environment series BBC Radio 4 BBC Sounds - Tom Heap Helen Czerski ask if nature is better off without us. Jake Fiennes Cal Flyn Rewilding Britain Kent Wildlife Trust help with the answer bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

In Fire Weather, I suggested the possibility of 'a potentially winter-less scenario in which fire weather is the only weather, and 'fire season' never ends.'
CBC reports more than 100 'zombie fires' currently burning in British Columbia.
cbc.ca/news/canada/wi…

This is cool - well done Dan Richards for driving the republication of this landmark book

'Here’s a quick round-up of the award-winning novels of 2023, plus a few personal highlights from among the finalists' ICYMI Cal Flyn's roundup of literary award winners of 2023:
fivebooks.com/best-books/awa…